Power to the People: Democratising energy through decentralised manufacture and production of affordable, reliable, sustainable solar power

电力为民：通过分散制造和生产负担得起、可靠、可持续的太阳能来实现能源民主化

• 批准号: EP/T01556X/1
• 负责人: David Worsley
• 金额: $ 102.99万
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT01556X%2F1
• 关键词: Power; People; Democratising; energy; through

A programme of GRTA activity is proposed that will demonstrate the democratisation of energy. Through decentralising the manufacture and deployment of affordable, reliable solar power into the hands of local communities, novel models of public participation and local energy ownership can be explored through the creation of new actors such as prosumers, renewable energy co-operatives and community owned power generation.SUNRISE, a £6.5M GCRF project, is growing research capability in the UK and India in the field of next generation solar energy systems that are affordable, reliable and sustainable. As such, SUNRISE partners form the core team assembled to respond to this GRTA call. This core is enhanced through the addition of other relevant collaborators from the DAC listed countries of Mexico, Kazakhstan and South Africa.The transdisciplinary consortium comprises a combination of technical, commercial and socio-economic expertise and resources. As such, the group is ideally positioned to exploit the opportunity presented by a new, disruptive, solution processable (printed) solar energy technology - the perovskite solar cell (the underlying GCRF research). Due to the low capital equipment costs and use of earth abundant materials, perovskite technology has the potential to deliver locally manufactured, affordable, reliable, sustainable modern energy solutions for the climatic and socio-economic contexts in developing countries.Solution processable PV materials, which can be applied as an ink using printing and coating processes, present a very viable alternative to the currently established PV technologies. Perovskite solar energy devices offer not only significant advantages in manufacturing and capital costs, but also in their application onto flexible substrates and direct integration into vehicles and buildings without excessive weight implications. Historically, the main disadvantage for printed PV has been the efficiency, which for Dye Sensitised Cells (DSC) and Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) technologies have struggled to exceed 12%, making the potential collectors quite large. However, a new technology recently developed in the UK, the Perovskite Solar Cell (PSC), has now exceeded all previous attempts to develop a solution processed PV.The performance of PSC lab devices has now reached over 23% representing a step change in performance for new 3rd generation solar cells. At present the deposition of this exciting technology can be achieved on glass or flexible plastic materials, however this capability is yet to transfer at any significant level to module prototyping and fabrication, such as that contemplated by the technical aspects of this project. As such, the GRTA funding will be used to accelerate:+ Delivery of 'at-scale' building technology demonstrators, translating research into practical application + Growth of global academic, commercial, NGO and government collaborations through a cohort of International Transdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer Fellows+ Commercialisation of substantial relevant IPR and know-how in the solar energy spaceGiven the imperatives of the 'energy trilemma' global challenge (SDG7 - security, equity and sustainability), it is now timely to engage in the translational work needed to demonstrate perovskite photovoltaic technologies can be produced at commercially viable scale and cost. If this goal is achieved, it will present a global opportunity to address climate change in an equitable and sustainable manner.MIT Energy Initiative: "solar energy holds the best potential for meeting humanity's future long-term energy needs while cutting greenhouse gas emissions - but to realize this potential will require increased emphasis on developing lower cost technologies and more effective deployment policy".In just one hour the Earth receives enough solar energy from the Sun to power the whole of the world economy for a year!

提出了一项GRTA活动方案，该方案将展示能源的民主化。通过将负担得起的、可靠的太阳能的制造和部署分散到当地社区手中，可以通过创建新的参与者（如产消者、可再生能源合作社和社区拥有的发电）来探索公众参与和当地能源所有权的新模式。该公司正在英国和印度发展下一代太阳能系统领域的研究能力，这些系统价格合理，可靠且可持续。因此，日出合作伙伴组成了响应GRTA号召的核心团队。通过增加来自墨西哥、哈萨克斯坦和南非等发援会名单上国家的其他相关合作者，这一核心得到加强，这一跨学科联合体包括技术、商业和社会经济专门知识和资源。因此，该集团处于理想的位置，可以利用一种新的、颠覆性的、溶液可加工（印刷）太阳能技术-钙钛矿太阳能电池（GCRF的基础研究）所带来的机会。由于低资本设备成本和使用地球丰富的材料，钙钛矿技术有可能为发展中国家的气候和社会经济环境提供本地制造的，负担得起的，可靠的，可持续的现代能源解决方案。溶液可加工的光伏材料，可以作为油墨使用印刷和涂层工艺，为目前建立的光伏技术提供了一个非常可行的替代方案。永久性太阳能设备不仅在制造和资本成本方面具有显著优势，而且在其应用于柔性基板上以及直接集成到车辆和建筑物中而不会产生过多的重量影响方面也具有显著优势。从历史上看，印刷光伏的主要缺点是效率，染料敏化电池（DSC）和有机光伏（OPV）技术的效率一直难以超过12%，这使得潜在的收集器非常大。然而，最近在英国开发的一种新技术，即永久性太阳能电池（PSC），现在已经超过了以前开发溶液处理PV的所有尝试。PSC实验室设备的性能现在已经达到23%以上，这代表了新的第三代太阳能电池性能的一步变化。目前，这种令人兴奋的技术的沉积可以在玻璃或柔性塑料材料上实现，然而，这种能力还没有在任何重要的水平上转移到模块原型和制造中，例如本项目的技术方面所设想的。因此，GRTA的资金将用于加速：+交付“大规模”建筑技术示范，将研究转化为实际应用+通过一批国际跨学科知识转移研究员促进全球学术，商业，非政府组织和政府合作的增长+太阳能领域大量相关知识产权和专有技术的商业化鉴于“能源三难困境”全球挑战（SDG 7-安全，公平和可持续性）的必要性，现在是时候参与所需的转化工作，以证明钙钛矿光伏技术可以以商业上可行的规模和成本生产。如果这一目标得以实现，它将为全球提供一个以公平和可持续的方式应对气候变化的机会。“太阳能在满足人类未来长期能源需求的同时减少温室气体排放方面具有最大的潜力，但要实现这一潜力，就需要更加重视开发低成本技术和更有效的部署政策。在短短一小时内，地球从太阳获得的太阳能足以为整个世界经济提供一年的动力！

项目成果

Tin Sulfide (SnS) Films Deposited by an Electric Field-Assisted Continuous Spray Pyrolysis Technique with Application as Counter Electrodes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.

• DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c03454
• 发表时间: 2022-11-08
• 期刊: ACS OMEGA
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Mohammad, Tauheed;Alam, Firoz;Sadhanala, Aditya;Upadhyaya, Hari M.;Dutta, Viresh
• 通讯作者: Dutta, Viresh

Functionality Tuning in Hierarchically Engineered Magnetoelectric Nanocomposites for Energy-Harvesting Applications.

• DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c01435
• 发表时间: 2023-05
• 期刊: ACS applied materials & interfaces
• 影响因子: 9.5
• 作者: Shashikant Gupta;C. Chatterjee;Bushara Fatma;Kumar Brajesh;R. Bhunia;N. Sowmya;Soumyabrata Roy

Biocompatible, breathable and degradable microbial cellulose based triboelectric nanogenerator for wearable transient electronics

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• DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108628
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Nano Energy
• 影响因子: 17.6
• 作者: Fatma B

Synthesis and Emergent Photophysical Properties of Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Supramolecular Self-Assembly.

• DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c01091
• 发表时间: 2022-07-12
• 期刊: ACS OMEGA
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Maity, Nilabja;Majumder, Kanad;Patel, Arun Kumar;Swain, Diptikanta;Suryaprakash, Nagarajarao;Patil, Satish
• 通讯作者: Patil, Satish

Fabrication of highly conducting ZnO/Ag/ZnO and AZO/Ag/AZO transparent conducting oxide layers using RF magnetron sputtering at room temperature

• DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2021.105801
• 发表时间: 2021-03-13
• 期刊: MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Barman, Bidyut;Swami, Sanjay Kumar;Dutta, Viresh
• 通讯作者: Dutta, Viresh